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Quotes About Disillusionment

Oh, I'm so sick and tired of pretending this is a home! You won't help me! You won't put yourself out the least bit! You don't know how to act in a home! You don't really want one! You never wanted one - never since the day we were married! You should have remained a bachelor and lived in second-rate hotels and entertained your friends in barrooms!
~ Eugene O'Neill
They say you should never meet your heroes. Killing them only makes things more awkward.
~ Andrew Mayne
After Hitler had viewed the granite memorial to the 1918 Armistice near the railway carriage, he ordered it to be destroyed. Spears was right to think that the French initially had 'a conception of the old days of royalty when you just exchanged a couple of provinces, paid a certain amount of millions and then called it a day and started off the next time hoping you would be more lucky', but they were soon to be vigorously disabused.
~ Andrew Roberts
StÃ…â"¢ezte se roz?arování, neb dojmy klamou. Takovými, jakými se zdají být, jsou vÄ›ci jen zÃ…â"¢ídkakdy. A ženy nikdy.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The more I saw of love, the less I liked the look of it
~ Angela Carter
By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.
~ Angela Carter
The air for miles round Angkor Wat was thick with renunciation. Mrs. Rivers saw herself clearly in the moonlight outside the great ruins. Slim and alluring she stood in her riding-kit. No one would have taken her for forty-eight. Her intelligence, her mocking wit, her disillusionment with life, all these availed her naught against the overpowering passion of a late flowering love.
~ Angela Thirkell
I feel like an expressionist nihilist deep in my heart. And I think nihilism can stop the wheel from going around, around, around, around, around - saying the same thing, reacting the same way.
~ Tom Burke
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
~ William Throsby Bridges
When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.
~ Scott McClellan
I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
~ Jimmy Carter
From day one I knew Pro Elite didn't know what they were doing.
~ Frank Shamrock
Some set experiences are not good, and sometimes the auditioning process is not fun. There are a lot of different things about this industry that can just make you not enjoy it.
~ Josephine Langford
Often I've met people who are famous, and as you get to know them, they disappoint you.
~ Davis Guggenheim
I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.
~ Bill Bryson
If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.
~ Steve Schmidt
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.
~ Max Lucado
I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.
~ Michelle Beadle
I always knew what I wanted but just got a little disillusioned for a while. It was so difficult to understand what my music is.
~ Neha Bhasin
I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.
~ Paul Weller
There are times when I love the world and love everyone, and I want to talk to everyone, and other times when I feel really disillusioned, and like none of this is real, nothing is real around me.
~ Tali Lennox
I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another.
~ Kitty Kelley
Music, for me, was something I did because I was disillusioned after the Cold War's end and did not know what I wanted in life.
~ Varg Vikernes
I left Brazil at 17 years old in order to give my family a better life, but when I returned home two years later, I was completely disillusioned with football.
~ Paulinho